Britain seen from above

5 August 2008

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a new BBC television series of which the first episode will be broadcast on Sunday 10 August. "Britain seen from above" shows the "unseen ballet of Britain" & the "great migrations across our landscape" "using satellite tracking & ground-breaking computer imaging".

the video trailer shows glimpses of maps with maritime shipping traffic, London taxi GPS traffic, British airspace traffic & UK's national telephone network activity.

[link: news.bbc.co.uk & youtube.com|thnkx Dave]

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Now THAT's aesthetic information. Beautiful.

i like how the information chosen is palpable to most everyone, yet when exposed is still fresh

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